When did we stop playing games like Monopoly and Scrabble, and begin playing Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto? This is a brief article on the dangers of video games. We're asking the question, "Just what are we preparing our children for?"

We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses―and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces―the Glow Kids―are multiplying.

Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five-hundred years— and a question that has been pondered by almost anyone who has ever lived: What is death?